Intimate Economies

Susanne Hofmann is currently guest professor at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. Her research explores training schemes on human trafficking prevention in Brazil and Mexico. Adi Moreno is a research fellow at the Haifa Feminist Institute. Her research interests involve family practices, assisted reproduction markets and non-normative forms of parenting in the Israeli LGBT community.

• Introduction: Global Intimate Economies - Discontents and Debates.- Part I: Commodifying Affects, Emotions and Selves.- 1 The “Authentic Cybertariat”? Commodifying Feeling, Accents and Cultural Identities in the Global South.- 2 Regulating Sexy Subjects: The Case of Brazilian Fashion Retail and its Affective Workforce.- 3 Emotional Labor and Ethical Practice: Professionalism Among Sex Workers in Tijuana.- Part II: Sexualized Bodies on the Market.- 4 A Feast of Men: Sexuality, Kinship and Predation in the Practices of Female Prostitution in Downtown Porto Alegre.- 5 Neoliberalism, Oil Wealth and Migrant Sex Work in the Chadian City of N’Djamena.- 6 The Use of “life-enabling” Practices Among waria: Vulnerability, Subsistence and Identity in Contemporary Yogyakarta.- Part III: Global Reproductive Commerce.- 7 Gestational Labors: Care Politics and Surrogates’ Struggle.- 8 Surrogate Mothers and Gay Fathers: Navigating the Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement in India.- 9 Families on the Market Front.